Johnson County News

The Hispanic Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City signed an agreement earlier this month with the Johnson County Library to provide entrepreneurial guidance in Spanish at the library's facilities.

Mexican flu virus in Wyoming residents has gone up to 72. A To date, the Wyoming Department of Health has confirmed cases in eight counties.

Recent approval of a request by Governor Dave Freudenthal will mean an increase in federal funds for certain rural health clinics in Wyoming and opportunities to strengthen rural health recruitment efforts.

Metropolitan Kansas City's economic performance is expected to rebound in the fourth quarter, according to a mid-year forecast delivered today by the chief economist of the Mid-America Regional Council.

About 500 area residents and volunteers gathered this week at the Johnson County Fairgrounds to share a meal and help provide housing for people in need.

Old and busted: Home ownership. Why? Because it's out of reach for most gainfully employed people nowadays and the housing crash has almost completely dried up the market.

So here is a really neat live-muley pic from the World Wide Web. Supposedly it was taken in Johnson County, Wyoming this fall.

Friday, January 23, 2009 Gee, not much happening this week, huh? Banner headlines like closing Gitmo are just one another story in The First Hundred Hours.

Guest blogger Bart Weiss sends this report. Bart is the Artistic Director of the Dallas Video Festival .

When more than 940 members of the Wyoming National Guard deploy to Kuwait, it will bring the total number of Wyoming Guardsmen serving overseas to 1,298. "That's like taking a small community out of Wyoming," ...

The first public comment period for a federal plan that will establish how oil, gas, coal, grazing, wildlife and other resources are managed for the next 20 years in the Powder River Basin begins Friday.